pirouette

“A four-legged creature is hard to make look right because he has to stand up and do things,” he told The Times — athletic things, like performing a pirouette.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

A flick, followed by a pirouette and pass into Adams was another highlight.

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025

During so-called learning walks, the animals then explore the immediate surroundings around the nest entrance and repeatedly pirouette around their own body axis with short stops in between.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

One stood up on the twrch tryth’s back and did a pirouette, her hair whipping around her head.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

"I had the time of my life there. It's not a stage-stage school, but of course there's kids doing pirouettes and going 'Aaaaaahhhhh!' in the hallways," Adele told BBC 4 radio in 2022.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Yet, their conversation always pirouettes back to the gap between the real world and the movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025

The virtuoso Roman Mejia is ever the dashing hero, topping off pirouettes and twisting leaps with poses of flexed arms and fists.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

It was his dance teacher who filmed the young boy in June 2020 as he practised pirouettes barefoot in the rain.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2023

From morning till night it continued: the choosing of outfits, the practicing of pirouettes, the making of to-do lists.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Despite their deficit on the field, Clermont were rewarded for their resolve on the stroke of half-time as Anthony Belleau pirouetted over the line with a neat finish.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

On a recent afternoon, 18 members of Birmingham Royal Ballet spun, pirouetted and leaped across a rehearsal room, with all the grace and skill associated with classical dance.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

Union resisted Madrid’s first 29 goal attempts but the 30th proved too much when Jude Bellingham pirouetted to finish a game of pinball in the goalmouth and shoot into an empty net.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Gilgeous-Alexander made three step-back three-pointers in the third quarter and, after the last, pirouetted toward one section of the lower bowl and smiled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

She did it again on the very next possession, this time coming down from the top of the key, pirouetting into the paint and dropping in the easy two-footer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

Imagine playing as Mario, pirouetting through the Mushroom Kingdom as a waft of a Fire Flower power-up hits you.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025

In 2020, Anthony Madu’s dance teacher in Lagos, Nigeria, posted a video of the then 11-year-old student gracefully pirouetting and pulling off grand jetés barefoot in the rain.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Elsewhere in the country, ballets are also pirouetting up from the page.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2023

When he swept back inside, pirouetting my mother, it seemed the perfect moment to ask.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt